Successfully introducing new, unmanned aircraft in the Air Force, with varying degrees of autonomy, is at risk as long as there’s widespread disagreement about what an “autonomous” aircraft actually is,…
USAF is ill-prepared to absorb combat losses in a peer fight. The U.S. Air Force fighter force is in crisis. Three decades of canceled, curtailed, and delayed investment in aircraft…
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The Mitchell Institute report reaffirms the mounting bipartisan consensus of top military experts: to curtail F-35 production in the present domestic and geopolitical context is to court an unmitigated national…
The F-15EX is an upgraded version of the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter jet. The US Air Force received two F-15EX warplanes from US aerospace giant Boeing earlier this year.…
The Air Force’s “4+1” fighter plan for the 2020s, unveiled in recent months, will leave the service with a fleet that’s too small and improperly configured to deal with peer threats.…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force should abandon its plans to revive fourth-generation fighters under the F-15EX program, and instead focus on building more F-35As and new stealthy fighter jets,…
A former Air Force fighter pilot who played a key role in the United States’ immediate reaction to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 shared her personal reflections on courage…
She spoke to an audience at the Heinz History Center and urged people to remember the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — “On a bright blue…
Heather Penney was asked to stop hijacked flight 93 before it reached D.C. As the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were unfolding, then-Air Force Lt. Heather Penney was given a mission…